The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-09-22
The Future of jackson.


the State to be located here, because of
the advantage of our coal and iron. The
gas district has been weighed and found
wanting. 1t cannot compare with the ad-
vantages of Jackson. Our people deserve
great credit for their push and enterprise
in developing this valley. We are having
no boom, but are having the healthiest
growth of any town in the State. Messrs.
Wood and Coffman have so far perfected
their Self Binding Straw and Hay Press
that they desire to locate extenive works
for the manufacturing of their machine.
They have spent some months in looking
up the locality that would be best adapted
to their business. They have carefully
considered the advantages offered by the
natural gas district and compared them
with the advantages of this County, and
we are pleased to say to the people that
they are making arrangements to locate
in Jackson.
The company are making arrangements
to locate their works here. With the as
sistance of the people here they will come.
They propose to build a large machine
shop, equipped and furnished with the
most improved modern machinery.
They will build the Self Binding Straw
and Hay Press, as speciality, and do other
work that is in demand in this valley.
They expect to get their shops so far COM
pleted as to work 1000 men within twelve
months, and increase their capacity as
their goods are introduced. AS proof of
what that demand may be, / will briefly
state what their invention is, what its
uses are, and what called it into use.
The Press is built of steel and iron.
About two and half tons are used to a
machine. The machine is designed to re-
ceive the straw from a threshing machine,
make it into bales suitable for the mar
ket. without the aid of any men except
one man to keep the spools provided with
wires and take such care of the machine
as is incident to running machinery. This
machine is an automatic self-binding ma
chine. 1t places the wires around the
bale, binds it, then lays the wires in posi-
tion for the succeeding bale. All this is
done without the stopping of any ma
chinery. 1t is so constructed as to receive
continuous supply of straw, and has
capacity of five tons per hour. The ca
pacity can be increased by increasing the
driving mechanism, which is easily done.
This is one of the greatest labor saving
inventions of the age, and that it has a
great future cannot be questioned. Those
that have given it thought are greatest in
its praise.
To many of our rerders it is necessary
to tell of the great future that awaits the
products of the Straw Board, but to those
who have not given the question thought,
we will call their attention to some of the
uses made of straw.
1t is successfully used for all the ma
terials that compose the dwelling house
workshop and other buildings, for fence
posts, railway ties, etc.
Some experiments have been made in
car-wheel and railway rails with quite a
degree of success. Experiments of late
have been made to use it instead of plate
glass. 1t was success, being more trans
parent than the best glass.
These are some of the many things
straw is being used for to-day. That
straw is fast becoming great commodity
of commerce is not to be questioned, and
the American people have developed and
will reap the benefits of the industry is
equally true. In support of this 1 will
copy an article from the American Wood
Worker of May 1st. It says:
STRAW LUMBER.-The reputation of
American straw lumber has evidently
gone abroad in the world. Among the
items in an English exchange, with ref
erence to the forthcoming American Ex-
hibition in London, is the following, in
reference to an article that is by no means
rare in this country, a substitute for lum-
Der made of straw paper pulp:
"We are promised, among other novel
ties, house of straw. which is now being
made in Philadelphia. This house is to
represent an American suburban villa,
announced to be handsome, and artistic
in design two and half stories high, and
covering space of 42x5O feet. 1t is con-
structed entirely of materials manufac-
tured from mstraw-foundations, timbers,
flooring, sheathing, roofing, everything in
fact. including the chimneys-the mate
rial being f1re-proof as well as waterproof.
The inside finish is to be in imitation
rosewood, mahogany, maple, ash, walnut,
ebony, and other fine woods, the straw
lumber taking perfectly the surface and
color of any desired wood. This straw
house is, in the first place, to illustrate
Philadelphia's commercial, financial and
industrial interests by means of large
photographs of the leading buildings;
but it will also demonstrate how far the
inventive Yankee has succeeded, not in
showing us how to make brick without
straw, but how to produce timber from
straw. If after this brilliant exhibition
of inventive genius, we do not bow down
and worship him as the ticker of crea-
ton, we may consider ourselves lost to all
sense of what is proper under the cir